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Leviathan the Tidehunter Guide, Build & Strategy

Leviathan Guide & Build, the Tidehunter Strategy. Leviathan is one of the great tanker who has good self-defend mechanism and also can be a good initiator in a big war using his ultimate skill: Ravage. This post contains Leviathan the Tidehunter guide, item build, skill build and strategy.

Greatest of the sea giants, Leviathan was sealed away in the aftermath of the war between the Old Gods and the Titans in ancient times. Now released by the Lich King to aid in his crusade against the Sentinel, he cleaves through waves of enemies with his mighty anchor, breaking enemy sieges before they even begin. As terrible a foe on land as he is in water, those who stand before the Tidehunter are swept away in a sea of spikes, eviscerated as he closes in to pulverize those left to receive his wrath.

Take the advantages of this skill in early minutes: short cooldown, movement speed reduction, high damage and armor reduction which gonna deal more physical damage with your mate. In late game, this skill is still useful with its short cooldown and movement speed reduction.

Kraken Shell

Creates a thick armor shell around Leviathan that protects him against attacks. Whenever he loses 600 hitpoints from player based damage, it removes negative buffs. Damage counter gets reset if no damage taken in 6 seconds. Damage block doesn't stack with Stout Shield, Poor Man's Shield or Vanguard.

This skill is similar to free Vanguard, make leviathan can alive in early minutes since it has attack damage reduction. With this skill, leviathan can't killed by his enemy using negative buff skill like Shadow Strike and others.

Anchor Smash

Leviathan swings his mighty anchor with a vengeance. Gives a 20% chance to deal bonus damage to nearby enemies.

Level 1 - Deals 75 damage in a small radius
Level 2 - Deals 115 damage in a small radius
Level 3 - Deals 155 damage in a small radius
Level 4 - Deals 200 damage in a small radius

This skill almost works like a free Battlefury, but instead it's percentage-based. It is more useful when he has high attack speed, his DPS will increase.

Ravage (V)

Slams the ground, causing waves of spikes to ring the hero in all directions. Deals damage and stuns. Area increases per level.

Gush is his main nuke, so it is important to take early. Kraken Shell helps him with its survivability early on so he can avoid going back to the fountain. When he has reached level 10 and has high enough attack speed, Anchor smash will be useful to increase DPS. Ravage is his ultimate skill, so it is important to take whenever possible.

Quelling Blade is necessary for farming since it can increase Leviathan's damage to non-hero units by 32%. Energy Charge from Magic Wand can be casted when he is lack of mana to succeed landing his ultimate or to give a gush to an enemy.

Power Thread make him farming more effective together with Anchor Smash to increase his DPS. As alternative, it can be used to help his friend by gank enemies: visiting enemies faster and landing high DPS to them.

Dagger is very useful for perfectly landing Ravage to initiate a team battle.

Tidehunter Luxury Items

Refresher is very mana-intensive for him, however a double ultimate is game-breaking. Make sure that if he get this, he has enough mana to landing double ultimate.Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse is an extra disable. It also solves his mana problems, so this is a good item for Tide to have.

Heart of Tarrasque is an obvious choice for any tank especially for Tide. It gives him some much needed survivability and improves his tankiness by a lot. Assault Cuirass adds some massive survivability and IAS. Even though it is quite expensive, it helps his DPS and survivability a lot.

Dying a lot because of nukes? Khadgard's Pipe of Insight is for him. Those all out nukers will find it much harder to kill him and his team know.

Tidehunter Strategy

You can pick this hero whenever you want. In early minutes, you should put him in the top or bottom lane. Conserve your mana first, farm as good as possible and keep survive. If you and your teammate are confident to kill enemy, cast a gush to an enemy then your allies can follow up and proceed to take out the enemy.
Sometimes, you need to gank. Leave your lane and help another friend. Cast a gush and do the same to kill enemy, cast ravage too if possible and if you want.

In a big war, the most important role is initiating team battles. Here are some 'rules' to think about whenever getting ready to initiate:
1) Make sure your team is ready and fully behind you on this. You don't want to go in and then have your team back off, leaving you to die.
2) If you are blinking into the enemies (which you probably will), then always blink into the very middle of them. The reason is that you want to catch all of them in your ultimate, by initiating at the edge of the enemies, you will probably only catch a few.

Also know the AOE of Ravage. This is important because you want your positioning to be good so that when you Ravage you catch the most enemies possible. Gush the weakest hero after ravaging; most of the time this is their disabler or carry hero.

you are a noob if u level up anchor that earlyhe's mostly played as ganker or roamer besides an initiatorFor those who says anchor make u easy to farm think 1st .anchor smash makes ur creep push faster to tower making ur farming vulnerable to tower n gank@aliefU should add bottle for core .it gives u burst regen for ganking and very helpful in almost every situationbracer can be changed with urn instead

i use just the same build...just lvl 1-gush, lvl 2 and 3-kraken...Play like support but u can get some towers in early game, so u dont need so much farming.u could buy hyperstone after u get anchor, and i dont use refresher-its not bad, just most of the enemy will die without him in mid game...so this is the reason that i dont need guinsoo...btw first item that i got after the boots (and ofc starting items) is ring of health

IMBA BUILD GUINSO's and Kraken shell on early game,look im a tidehunter expert and he dont need magic wand he needs a EMPTY BOTTLE and he doesnt need KEDHARS PIPE OF INSIGHT,,ur a WEAK nothing but imba builds!

i usually put gush first. its always an early kill if you have a good stunner on your lane. then kraken shell.anchor lvl 5,ravage at lvl 6.build:5v5empty bottlequelling blade(acts like anchor 32% damage to creeps and auto swing;aoe)threadsdaggerbattle furycuirass

this is a noob guide....my build was bottle....treads....battle fury....hyperstone....thats it and i came 1st....all i need to add was kelens....mom............anchor smash is rly important early game but take only 2lvl's.....land ur ulties perfectly and u r sure to play very well

Those builds might work for extremely low level pub games, because players there actually believe that leveling up Anchor Smash early is a good idea. Give me a break. Check ANY competitive replay with Tidehunter, and tell me what those players level up first? Carry items on Tide are also for pubs. Dagger is the core for this guy.

there is no perfect build for him..it always depend on the enemy u have...why hate guinsoo??!!its a must when u have refresher..better mana regen and a 2nd disable plus mana pool..dagger is a must for him...dont boost his STR bcoz he has an above average STR growth..jaz boost his mana for gush spam+ravage..

QB for levi will change its attack animation by spinning when hitting creeps and by the fact that it will give extra bonus to creeps..but it doesnt mean that his anchor smash skill will always proc..IMHO QB maybe a good item for farming for levi..but that 200gold starting money isnt advisable..

weird I put basher on tide because i think its nice to have a great chance of dealing high amount of damage if anchor and CB will both effect on one target in other words i dont need to waste to much mana.........

weird I put basher on tide because i think its nice to have a great chance of dealing high amount of damage if anchor and CB will both effect on one target in other words i dont need to waste to much mana.........

QB for levi will change its attack animation by spinning when hitting creeps and by the fact that it will give extra bonus to creeps..but it doesnt mean that his anchor smash skill will always proc..IMHO QB maybe a good item for farming for levi..but that 200gold starting money isnt advisable..

i usually put gush first. its always an early kill if you have a good stunner on your lane. then kraken shell.anchor lvl 5,ravage at lvl 6.build:5v5empty bottlequelling blade(acts like anchor 32% damage to creeps and auto swing;aoe)threadsdaggerbattle furycuirass

IMBA BUILD GUINSO's and Kraken shell on early game,look im a tidehunter expert and he dont need magic wand he needs a EMPTY BOTTLE and he doesnt need KEDHARS PIPE OF INSIGHT,,ur a WEAK nothing but imba builds!

i use just the same build...just lvl 1-gush, lvl 2 and 3-kraken...Play like support but u can get some towers in early game, so u dont need so much farming.u could buy hyperstone after u get anchor, and i dont use refresher-its not bad, just most of the enemy will die without him in mid game...so this is the reason that i dont need guinsoo...btw first item that i got after the boots (and ofc starting items) is ring of health

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